Tidal waves and tsunamis — the two most powerful types of wave on Earth— are often confused in popular discourse. While the terms are sometimes used synonymously, tidal waves and tsunamis ...

Twenty years after the unprecedented 2004 catastophe, Petra Nemcova shares the painful yet powerful lessons she learned from ...

Footage from a catastrophic tsunami that hit Thailand showed the waves moving in reverse and demonstrated the terrifying ...

Learn how NASA and CNES scientists used the SWOT satellite to reveal unique tsunami patterns in Greenland's Dickson Fjord.

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

It's been nearly two decades since the deadliest tsunami in recent history. The catastrophic event occurred on 26 December ...

National Geographic’s latest docuseries brings viewers to the forefront of the 2004 tsunami and the people who lived through ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

Dazed by the debacle in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and former Chief Minister Uddhav ...

Unlike tidal waves, tsunamis have nothing to do with gravitational pulls from celestial bodies. They result from natural ...

(Knowing when it's safe to return after a local quake is something still needing research, Bernard says, but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 ...